Writing “Firewalkers” was a much longer endeavor than I had anticipated when I first committed to posting a weekly installment here on Channillo. Something that I envisioned taking a year to complete ended up taking nearly three.

I want to thank all of you who have read the series and stuck with it. This is a first (and very, very rough) draft of a novel that I hope to revisit someday and polish up. And, as per the ending of the last installment, it is the first in what I hope to be a series.

To those of you who read the entirety of the novel, I thank you for sticking it out through any plotholes, typos, cringy dialoge, or inconsistent character development. I have learned a lot over the past few years about the novel writing process (this w...